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Monday, October 26, 2015

The Listing Hop hosted by Bish Denham

Today is the blog hop hosted by the delightful Bish Denham, all about lists! Making lists is one of my favorite things to do, so of course I had to sign up. You can check out Bish's blog and the hop here!

I make lists every single day. Thank heavens for Google Tasks, because they help me out a ton. And often I also end up with scraps of paper with lists on them scattered around. Few things make me happier than to cross one of those lists off as complete :) But, that's not the only kind of lists I make (just as my students--I have lists of terms for them to study regularly!). For the hop, I thought I'd list out a few things I have down on my long-term to-do, the biggies I hope to accomplish in the next 5-10 years (my Bucket List, if I may, at least in short form). This seems like the perfect excuse to think about this kind of thing anyhow, and I might as well post it to keep myself accountable :)

In no particular order:

Visit Africa. I've come close to getting to this continent, but have yet to set foot there. I'd love to visit some of the awesome early human sites that I talk about in my courses!

Make tenure. I can't apply for this for a couple of more years, but the work is already beginning with that as the end goal. No rest for the weary!

Get an agent for my books. I've managed it before, but would love to have someone help represent my work.

Write a book that makes it to a best-seller list. I'm not terribly picky which one. I can dream, right? ;)

Travel more, especially out of the country. Ties in nicely with #1, and my wanderlust is insatiable.

Make more friends. I'm naturally very shy, so moving to Montana was really hard on me and it's taken me years to feel like I have a group of friends. I'd really like to find more people, too.

Be a better sister/daughter. Moving far from my family has made this a little more difficult than I'd like, and it's something I want to work on.

I know there are many more, but these are my top ones for the moment, and things I hope to work on overall as the months roll on. What are some of your bigger goals?

Thanks for listing with me, Meradeth! Yours is a BIG list for having only seven items. I'm an introvert too, and though I've lived in the same place for over 30 years, I have many acquaintances but I can count the number of friends I have on one hand. I don't think that's a bad thing.

Very nice list. I work in academia and one thing I strongly recommend on tenure is to put together a couple mentors all set on helping you navigate it--politics, publishing and funding are all so much harder on your own. I wish you luck!

I love lists too, especially marking the items done one at a time. I have notebooks of them. I use them as diary entries too - I can look back and see what I was doing that day. :)Hope you reach all your goals!

I made it to my local bestseller list. Your independent bookstore may publish one in the paper--if they do, just direct all your autographed copy orders there on release day and you may see that dream come true!

Hi there Meradeth. Great list. Mine is simply travel and I see you have a couple of travel related. Michelle Wallace posted some interesting facts about South Africa you might be interested in.May you reach your dreams!

This is a lovely list! I'm addicted to list-making and this bloghop was a perfect excuse to make one more! Best of luck on the travel and tenure - travel is one of my passions but I have yet to be able to do so as much as I'd like. As for tenure, one of my goals in life is to be a professor. Tenure is a wonderful goal! I certainly hope you get there :)

Those are great goals. Good luck on the African Voyage. I recently wrote a novel set in Stone Age Africa (Called Juma's Rain, due Nov. 15th on Amazon) and I have a goddaughter from World Vision in Kenia, so I'd love to go there too.

Awesome list! I am not participating in the hop due to time, but loving checking out everyone's lists. I hope you get to achieve the things on your list. It always helps me to spell things out because then I start making progress on the things I want to do. :)

Nice list. I have many of the same goals. There's just so much I want to do. I wish you the best in all your endeavors and hope you find that balance between life, work, distance, and family. Family is so important.

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